Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LEDGER. Tuesday and Friday, Ed. H. DeCamp, Editor and Publisher, A. W. Griffith, Local Editor. The Ledger is not responsible for the Mews of correspondents. Obituraries will be published t live cents a line. Correspondents who do not contri bute) regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. All correspondence should be ad- dessed to Ed. H. DeCamp, Manager. We invariably discontinue sending ▼he Ledger when a subscription runs ^ut, for we have no way of knowing that a person wants it except by re ceiving his or her renewal. We ur gently solicit a prompt renewal, on the ground that the paper is worth the money. We are trying month by month to make it better and bet- ter. come to it as they can be. That is not social equality; that is the true Southern white man's love for the Negro. There still resides over in North Carolina—if perchance she has not died recently, and we hope such is of the lynchers of Morrison is to be a Won Victory Through Prohibition. fiasco We do not care a rap how (Edegefleld Advertiser.) prominent the people engaged in this Strange to say, some of the ex- ‘ changes that come to our desk seem law-breaking episode may have been ^ rath( r than rej()lce over the they should have been punished for h-; t j ia j prohibition is proving to be We understand that Morrison was an a success in Cherokee county, the outlaw but that did not give anyone,: first and only county thus far to rid , — ’ «. f the rio-ht itself of the dispensary. It is esti- nnt the case—an old black mammy except the officer o ’ mated that—notwithstanding the fact ru* H her religious duty to lo put him to death. I ntil our people: Cherokee is in close proximity to ho thoug i . are taught this lesson we may expect the region abounding in illicit distil- to see the law outraged by men of both ! leries—drunkenness has decreased eighty per cent, since the removal of the dispensary. This means that for every $100 formerly spent for liquor only $20 is spent now—that where 100 homes were wrecked, made veri- w THE NEGRO NORTH AND SOUTH. Some one sent us a copy of the Boston Journal containing an edito rial and two news items (all of which -were marked) bearing on the race question. It seems as if one Professor Poultney Bigelow, of the law school of Boston University, had remarked that “the Negro is unfit to legislate either for himself or others." Assum ing that the professor was speaking of the race as a whole he had no right to even modify that statement by declaring later that he "did not include as Negroes the half breeds or mull at toes of New England.” As a whole they are incapable of giving themselves good government. We can pick out individual Negroes here and there who have, to use a sentence quoted by Senator Butler at Hender sonville Monday, "by the aid of a pine 'torch and the pickax of determina tion dug through the dark wall of ig norance," who are capable of self- i her spank us not less than once a day; but if you wanted to see a row, and that right quickly, let any other darkey even look like he wanted to spank us; and, to tell the truth, the good old soul didn't like to have any of the white folks on the place under take to correct us. She had children of her own. We played with them nd learned to love both them and and; we firmly believe that if the necessity bad ever arisen she would have sacrificed her life for us. If our friends in the North and East and West will only learn the Negro as we know him. there will be less of this talk of a race question. The mind of the ignorant black man will not be disturbed and upset by inflam matory utterances, and the educated ones will go on educating others, un til, in another half century they will all be educated and no account as laborers, and the white man will sup plant them with farm machinery until we will not care whether we have a Negro on the place or not. This is rapidly becoming the state of affairs. But the black man is here: he Is go ing to stay here, and he and the white man will abide together in peace just so long as the Negro will attend to his own affairs and not attempt to meddle with his white neighbors. When he does, then “hell will break loose in Georgia,” or South Carolina, either, for that matter. We shall not dignify the lying ut terances of Rev. William Wade Ryan by even a comment, much less a reply. LOTS OF WHISKEY. ‘There must he a great demand for government and giving good advice whiskey in the dry town of Gaffney. to the race. Forty years of freedom may have enlightened some of them it Is true, but not enough to legislate for themselves or anyone else. They are learning, however, and at a rapid rate They have advanced wonder fully along educational lines; and we hate to acknowledge it, but It is nevertheless true, that they are tak ing rdvantage of their educational op- The Spartanburg Journal of Wednes day says a large quantity of whiskey in jugs, kegs, etc., consigned to parties in Gaffney was put off train No. 39 at the Southern depot Wednesday morn ing to he sent back to Gaffney on the next north hound* train. The express car, it is said, contained such a large quantity of whiskey in jugs that the express messenger did not have time to put off all of the jugs of liquor and was forced to bring much of the stuff to Spartanburg and send it back on portunities to a greater etxent than thp nPxt train for finffney. the whites. But my! my! how tri-, rp he a i 10VP i s f r om the Orangeburg fling they are getting. You can hardly T j mPs anf1 Democrat, not as an edito- get one to do manual labor, and to r j a j on t ^ p on tside. the same side ask an educated Negro to cut a load as p ro D,er Sims sends out to his of wood or to work the garden would brother publishers who patronize his he to insult him. In that respect many of them are becoming worthless. Of cours^ there are a few of the old- timers left, and a small per cent, of the new ones, who can he relied upon; but they are far betwen and few in the hill. We of the South have great respect for the good Negro, and will do as much or more for him than any one else, hut our hatred for a mean Negro goes farther than our love for a good one. We speak from a broad stand point and do not mean to say that this is literally true in every individual case. We could point out cases where the white people of the South have done more for Negroes than for their white neighbors. It may he that the Negro has been aided because he needed aid, while the white man was able to take care of himself. We know of one white man who has gone security for a Negro and never in all his life went security for a white man. And he did not do it for gain, for he never re ceived a penny and very little thanks for his kindness. The Ne^ro of the South instinctively looks to the white man to protect and take care of him, and if he is the proper kind of a Ne gro he will receive that care and pro tection, not because the white man hopes to >#ain anything hut because he feels it is his duty to help the Negro. Some of us mistreat the Negro; some of us outcount him; somt? of us cheat him out of his earnings, hut these are not in the majority by any means, nor neither do they approxi mate the majority. In fact they compose a very small per-centage of our people. We are glad to he able to say that, high and low degree. * * • What in the world has got into the Charleston News and Courier? We searched its pages Saturday and Sun day for an account of the performance of its baseball team, and not a line table hells, because of whiskey only 20 are now—that where 100 lives were ruined, damned soul and body, only ^ . . , ., ,, . , . 20 are now—that where 100 crimes could we find, but it thought so muc it (lue to jjq Uor drinking were committed, Col. Jimmie Bacon’s letter from New on ] y 20 are now. York that it gave it in two different 1 To every fair and unprejudiced parts of the paper. Surely the editor m i n( l Ooes this not prove that thme ic enmpthinir in nmhlhltion? DoOs not is something in prohibition? Does not the foregoing prove (granting that 20 per cent, of the habitual drinkers do has had time to recover from the ef fects of that trip to Anderson by this time, or was he hypnotized by the! continue to gratify their appetites) Windy City folks? ! rhat Cherokee county has won a yic- I tory for sobriety, for morality, foy the i well-being of society, for the happi ness of hundreds of wives and daugh ters who suffer most from the demon of strong drink? There are those who pronounce To Owners of Spot Cotton. (Published by request of W. Sam Lipscomb, of Asbury.) To the Farmers: Victory is yours! Owing to the UNIQUE AZTALAN. The Only Url'-k Walled Town Site Found In Thin Country. In many respects Aztulan, in Wiseou sin, is aiuuug the most remarkable pre historic monuments ii? the northwest. It is the only brick walled town site found in this country. It is on the hot tom land of the Crayfish river, about two miles from Lake Mills. The inclos ing walls-of the town site are about 700 feet on its thinks and about l,r»0U feet long. The river served t > can plete the iuclosure of seventeen acres of land. Within and without the iuclosure there are round, truncated and oblong mounds, .iust beyond the Inclosing walls the 1 uid rises abruptly over twenty feet to the rolling table lands of the surr nm ling country. From tin bank a box e a stone could be tossed in to the town site within the Inclosure, which wou d seem to he a good reas >n why this iuclosure, wide’ has been called a fori, could not 1 ive been in tended for a defense against any hu man enemy. Along the brow of the higher land is a row 0/ nine than thirteen round pyramidal mounds ranging from three to twelve fed in height. From the top of these mounds or standing on the marvelous ability you have shown t°; an( i drinking of liquor are not sup- the world in your determination fo; | )rPsge( j a j )SO j U ^ e jy This position is as prohibition a failure because the sale fable land an enemy could command the whole town site. It has always hold your cotton, you have awakened all the civilized nations to the enor mity of the great possibilities of your self and of the South. You are mas ters of the situation, and upon you it devolves, now that you have won yo.ur victory, that you should reap the re- suhs and profits from that wonderful success, which has astounded the civ ilized world until every day they are echoing and applauding you in your great work. You astonished the world unreasonable as it is untenable. Where is the law that prohibits absolutely the crime that it was intended to sup- been conceded that Aztalan was not inclosed for purposes of defense. It has been supposed that it was walled , for protection from wild animals. Does the law against the though the iuclosure has never been taking of human life prevent murder. hi h or a , enough s , nce i ts dis- Does the law against carrying con press ? cealed weapons stop, or even abate to covery to keep out the panther, wild any degree, this evil? Does the law ! cat ’ wo i ,f - ^» r .moose and buffalo, which against stealing prevent, thieves from) " ei<? tl* 0 0,1 dangerous animals of plying their trade? Does the law the woods hereabout, against arson stamp out incendiary- Ihe purpose of its Inhabitants in No. Yet, who would vote for 1 constructing this inclosure over a half mile long still remains a mystery. The most remarkable art of Aztalan is its brick walls and walks. In this it is when you told them that you would the r pp Pa i of th ese laws because they hold your cotton. They applaud you. are not prohibitory? now when they realize that you have Cherokee may not he able tg keep done what you said you would. When whjskpy from a smalI percentage of 3 in KU iar"!in(l"alone'^the only'example you stated to the world that you would 1 her c itj ze ns who have acquired the f p r ,ck, i V ine •imomr ‘ill Jhe monu also reduce vour acreaire and vour fer- will r oru kin. ig among .ill the menu also reduce your acreage and your fer tilizers they hxiked on and wondered if you would do it. Now that you have done what you said you would do. and there is sufficient evidence to con vince any mortal man that you have made the reduction which you prom ised you would, they are still more in wonder at your great, wisdom and strength. Therefore, now that victory 1 is yours and the whole civilized world ! is standing and uttering their praise J of you, it behooves you to stand firm, reap the full benefits of this great and good victory, and secure the profits to yourself and to your Southern breth ren. You should not sell another hale of your cotton for (50 days. Realize this,—that the balance of the cotton which you may hold will regulate the price not only of the bal ance of this crop, hut also regulate ihe price of next year’s crop, which you have worked so wonderfully to alcoholic constitution and who will have the stuff though (he heavens fall, hut Cherokee through prohibition meats of the mound builders. These bricks or brloklets are not reetangu- can’, and is. keeping thousands and lar and .egular in form and size, as are the modern brick. They are simply halls of plastic clay welded by the hand into small bricktets of Irregular thousands of her citizens—including boys and young men—from forming the liquor habit, thereby approaching absolute prohibition nearer and nearer | form about the average size of a snow as the months come»and go. ball. The material used was the ;—• glacial yellowish red clay of the vi- A Hog and Hominy Team. cinlty, and the rtdor of the bricks Is (Keowee Courier.) , rw j or p^kt yellow. Under the glass Since Editor Jas. T. Bacon, of the Edgefield Chronicle, has been sug gested a% a candidate for governor, we would suggest further the name of Another prominent and conservative newspaper man as a running mate for Mr. Bacon. We refer to S. M. Grist, of the Yorkville Enquirer. They are both excellent, gentlemen, neither [ seeking political honors and would fill with credit the high positions for which they now stand "suggested.” scrapings appear like a handful of crystal sand.—Minneapolis Journal. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. The Courier would consider it an hon- circumscribe, for by forcing what you lor to support them, on general princi- now have upon the market it will | pies and more especially because we depreciate the price of not only every bale that you bring in, but every hale that you have left on your plantation ready-print department. It purports to he a news item, but the editorial opinion that “there must be a great demand for whiskey in the dry town of Gaffney” is expressed, and he makes all who use his ready prints say so. But to the facts in the case. A Ledger representative called up Mr. Fisher, the local express agent, and asked him about the truth of the article. Mr. Fisher said that there was a total of fourteen packages for Gaffney; that on account of a large amount of other express, such as fish, cabbage, etc., they did not have time to handle the entire fourteen packages of whis key. and that not more than eight packages were carired by. We make no concealment of the fact that whis key conies to Gaffney. It does come, and more than we would like to see come, hut it is manifestly unfair to try to leave the impression that the present state of affairs is not an im provement over the old system. Cer tainly the consumption of whiskey in this county has been reduced—and that materially—and that is what we were aiming at. Our pro-dispensary friends, however, take every opportu nity to have it. appear that the effort to reduce the consumption of whiskey is a failure. Such is i(ot the case, and if they would he fair they would not try to pervert the facts. Don’t be a misfortune teller. If you can't do anything else, try to keep out of the way. You don’t have to be impolite to peo ple because you dislike them. Don’t think up mean tilings in your mind which you intend to say if you get the clianco. Don’t tell your wrongs to your friends unless you want to discover that their enthusiasm is very weak. When an accident happens, there is have for years advocated the policy of which thi'ir names are synonymous. Here’s to Bacon and Grist—hog and and in your storehouses, and also de-1 hominy—great men and a great policy! preciate every hale that you have In! May they win, and may this grand old the ground and which you have worked ’State achieve honor and prosperity by always some one present to tell how so hard and industriously to put there. 1 their adoption! Hog and hominy— it could have been avoided. Therefore, hold your cotton. Stand 1 hat’s our policy. Three cheers for \ ma u never knows till he gets out firm. Do pot sell another hale for fiO Bacon and Grist! nI1 niany jolts and bruises days, in that time 1 can assure you there are plans being perfected tha' REDUCED RATES The Surest Way To Create an Estate Is through insurance on your life. And who is there that docs not want to leave something for loved ones? ; : : : Life Insurance is some thing that every man should have; it should be taken as early in life as possible. NOW is the time. WHERE PLACE INSURANCE ? —IN— THE UNION CENTRAL LIFE INSURANCE CO., f OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, Because it is sound ; lion- estly and conservatively managed; its premiums are a little lower, its div idends bigger and its policies fairest. : : : For particulars see Chas. P. Lip, Gaffney, S. C. District Mgr. he would have missed by staying in it. will he of great benefit to you. It is figured that one rich man’s son the masters. Be the masters now. and forever be the masters. Yours truly. Daniel J. Sully, April 24, 1905. New York. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Rest assured of this—you are surely j To Spartanburg Account .of South who has all the money he can spend Atlantic Music Festival. will spoil ten poor young men in the On account of the South Atlantic course of his life and not half try.— states Music Festival at Spartan- Atchison Globe. burg, S. C., May 3rd-5th, 1905, the Southern Railway announces the WPa „ K ..i „,„i the Artut. very low rate of one first-cla^s fare . . .. , plus 25 cents for the round trip (min- Adolt Ml/ . 1 dlli uiuchfor imum rate 50 cents). women, and he was apt to treat them Rates to apply from all stations 8cunt courtesy, no matter what Atlanta, Athens and Elberton, Ga., to their rank. When he was making his and from Charleston and Savannah to picture of the Konigsberg coronation Asheville, N. C,, inclusive. Tickets the Empress Augusta came to the cou- to be sold 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th of elusion that the women in It had not May from all polnLs in the above ter- been sufficiently considered, so she sent ritory; also on May 5th from stations. Field Marshal Wrangel to tell him so. Greenwood and Greenville to Uhar ; Tlie art j 8t took the criticism very ill lotte N. C., and Asheville to Colum- . bia, Inclusive. Final limit of all 1 ® nd 5’ luntly t ® ld , marshal that he tickets May Cth, 190^ , had better mlnd hls military affairs For further information as to rates, I ami leave art to artists. After a vio- etc., address any agent of the South-1 lent altercation Menzel pointed to the ern Railway, or, door, and Wrangel, red with rage, re- Brooks Morgan, tired with the word, “You are a nau- As True as Gospel. (Charlotte Observer.) The following is from the hotel lobby column of The Washington Post; “Ex-Senator John L.. McLaurin, of South Carolina, who is at the Raleigh, might yet be occupying a seat in the reatest legislative body in the world hut for his sturdiness in advocating opinions that were not in accord with the views of a majority of his people. Senator McLaurin’s independence caused him loss of political power, a result, that he accepted with charac teristic fortitude, and yet today he is again in high favor at home, for many of those w'ho once opposed him are now his zealous followers.” That is true. Had he drifted with the current Mr. McLaurin would to day he holding the senatorial seat now occupied by Asbury C. Latinuy. That he chose not to drift wdll, however, al ways he to his credit, no matter what the future has in store. Everybody in this section regrets the disaster which overtook the Ogden party last Saturday morning. It cer tainly looks like gross negligence on the part of someone. * * * The Abbevile Medium says Bam berg is the wickedest town in the as a rule, the Negroes of this commit- confess that Mr. John NY. nity are the friends of the whites in s letter to the Bamberg Herald the community. Of course our North- ^ ves tow n a rather unsavory rep-j ern brother must not take this as i uta, I° n , but we are inclined to think 1 meaning that we advocate or pi social equality. There are Ne win* would not permit some white hls complaint to the municipal autiiori people to enter their homes, jjjst as j fi 68 rather than parade the shortcom there are some white people who would not let a negro enter their home by the front door. There are others of both races who are not quite Mt, Paran Paragraphs. Mt. Uaran. April 29.—The farmers are going ahead planting their cotton in this part of the county. - Most of them are using as much guano as they lid last year, hut they are putting A. G. P. A. Sou. Ry.. Atlanta, Ga. Arrival of Trains. seous toad!’ They Didn't Have Time. « — — A short time ago some men were For the convenience of the people, en gagt? d in putting up telegraph poles og Gaffney and vicinity, we publish on SOIue i au j ^longing to an old farm- below a correct schedule of the ar- er who disliked seeing hia wheat rival at Gaffney of the passenger 1 , . . , ^ , TQ _. trains on the Southern railroad- ' t™ m P lc d down, according to the vera GOING SOUTH No. 39 arrives at 9:10 A. M. No. 37 arrives at 10:57 A. M. No. 11 arrives at 2:52 P. M. No. 97 arrives at 6:43 P. M. No. 35 arrives at 11:50 P. M. GOING NORTH a right good lid under their corn, and No. 36 arrives at 7:22 A. M. more under their cotton than they did. But if ill other counties are as honest as Cherokee.the cotton acreage will he clous Register of Great Bend, Kan. The men produced a paper by which they said they had leave to put the poles where they pleased. The old farmer went hack and turned a large bull in the field. The savage beast made after the men, and the old farm er, seeing them running from the field, No. 12 arrives at 4:40 P. M. touted a t the top of hls voice: “Show N'a 25 zaz !;g f; p*.«= ■>-> «*- reduced considerably. I think ('hero-' No. 97 is a mail train only, and Nos i kee will do its duty If all the rest will, j 37 and 38 are “the vestibules;” and i Snbtraetion. '■Ye nil know it did its duty when the none of the three stops at Gaffney. A. teacher in a western public school dispensary was Anted out. That was All Hie others make regular stops. w,lH Riving her class the first lesson In n great pest, for when Saturday came 1 Mail Is sent from Gaffney on all subtraction. "Now, in order to suh- most of the whiskey swimmers had to trains except Nos. 97, 39 and 40, and tract,” she explained, “things have to If anybody has a message for the people of this community he cannot deliver it to them so effectually, so cheaply, so quick ly in any other way as through the columns of this paper. It is the business of this pa per to carry messages of one kind and another into homes. The message will be delivered, too, under favorable conditions, for few persons take up their local paper except in a pleasant and receptive frame of mind. The sign upon the fence board may be good, but it can be seen only by travelers who go that particular road. The message in the local paper carries itself to thousands, no matter by which road they travel. Select your space and put your message where H will do the most good. We, perhaps, can help pm if you will but ask aa. t ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ t t t ♦ f ♦ I practice that Mr. Black would have served his I '" 1 ! nmv , an -' of K° <•* town ^ , .1.. 1 and get back sober. Before the dis- Negroes town to better advantage had h- made iu . USAry was |Mlt (MI) yon P()ll]( | often v" >‘i town and spend the last cent is received from all except Nos 39 tli- v had for wlhskey. while their and 10. The malls close at the post- w vi - and children probably were at offiee thirty minutes before each train ho ne - uffering for something to eat. is due to arrive. ings of the town in the newspapers. • * * As the leaves fall one by one In the fall, so the survivors of the “Lost as particular. \Ve have In mind a Cause” are falling. Gen. Fhzhugh Lee, good Negro family living a few miles of Virginia, crossed the great dlvldts from town who every time a member Friday. He was one of the most ho of lt comes to town, visit a white fain- j loved men of ills day and time, and Uy an( ] ta ke dinner. They are invited his appointment to the United States to do it, and arc welcome. But they j army by President McKinley has had enter the side gate, g<> around to the I a great deal to do with wiping out the hack door, and, when they eat they oat In the kitchen after the "white folks" have finished. They don't eat the scraps, either. They get just us goodas anybody, and are just as wel- sectional feeling that was once pronounced in this section. Peace to his'soul. so be • * * We sincerely regret that the arrest ■ it man running around hogging for | don died at her home three 1 quarter or fifty cents to get some j above Gaffnev the 27th hist., be always of the same denomination. For Instance, we couldn’t take three apples from four pears or six horses from nine dogs.’* A hand went up in the back part of the room. “Teacher,” shouted a small boy, “can’t you take four quarts of milk front fitrce co'.Harper's Weekly. Elizabeth Gordon. Editor The Ledger: Elizabeth Gor- e miles ... , 1 1 - ..... ....... in her whiskey, hut it is not so now. It Is a eighty-first year, after a short illness shame for a man to get drunk and | She leaves three daughters and two I .‘l.iisc his wile iiiul children. Driving aged sisters and a host of relatives 1 with iiie Hlnic on it. out the dispensary of course knocks and friends to mourn her loss. ,! 0ra yce Edvthe is pretty foxv. She " 1 11 K, .'' al man : v ,r<M ” f 'l 1! ‘i , >- Before sic* died she spoke of feeling won’t sav anything 11 bout her love nf- -ang: hut we don t care tor that. We 1 happy and tried to point out to those 7, ,1 . , ** .' ' , l ® %e 111 ould just as soon work our roads ' around her Christ and a host of little fHlrK but 1 luivo nn ,dl ‘ a that Rl,e hiU ourselv. as to have the old dispen-1 angels, which she assured them she Anally accepted young Kripleigh. Gladys sary. Booker T. ] saw plainly. She was a good neighbor ~ Iu tbat < ' as ” s1k ‘ is “h 1 to s0,)a 8how and a kind, gentle and loving mother, hor hand.—Loalsvllle Courier-Journal. tutd scented to feel like she was going to rest. ‘A voice we loved Is stilled. A place Is vacant In our home Which never can be filled.” Some men, like mules, do little It' id work and are always kicking. Woman’s Inhumanity to man makes the divorce lawyer happy. “Only the shots that hit are the shots that count.” Subscribe for The Ledger, $1.00 a year. Klirinklnsr. Mrs. Brown My husband snvs there has bet'n quite a stiriukagc In the stock. Mrs. Jones—I see. They have the same Tim world I. a dark place to Ike »'r.Hd that wo do In man who... oyo» are In hla imckcl. dr » «<*"'»-.vou cant alwnya K«t (WhIi pock Subscribe for The Ledger, $1.00 a yoar# * For Sale in Gaffney At a Bargain. 1 Lot 80x160 on Brown St. 2 Lots close in town. For Sale at t Blacksburg. Tw(j small tracts of land to go at a bargain. Stock in Whittaker Cotton Mills. Z. A. Robertson. GAFFNEY, S. C. that won’t uhrlnk.—New York Press.